Finally there is a hint of Spring in the air. And that can mean only one thing.
It’s time to update the Brightbox Official Images.
The RedHat Enterprise derivatives (Centos, Scientific Linux) are now at version 6.4 and 5.9 - reflecting the latest minor release updates on those distributions.
The big news though is that Brightbox now synchronises with the official Ubuntu Cloud Guest Images.
$ brightbox images list --type=official
id owner type created_on status size name
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img-hy0lf brightbox official 2013-05-10 public 0 Blank Disk Image (i686)
img-t3xyp brightbox official 2013-05-10 public 0 Blank Disk Image (x86_64)
img-adtke brightbox official 2011-07-20 public 0 Blank disk image (compat) (i686)
img-ztdma brightbox official 2011-07-20 public 0 Blank disk image (compat) (x86_64)
img-itn4a brightbox official 2013-05-02 public 1 Brightbox Bootstaller (i686)
img-6xgf1 brightbox official 2013-05-02 public 1 Brightbox Bootstaller (x86_64)
img-2vn9s brightbox official 2013-05-10 public 5222 CentOS 5.9 server (x86_64)
img-h9zix brightbox official 2013-05-10 public 5120 CentOS 6.4 server (i686)
img-6rdtr brightbox official 2013-05-10 public 5120 CentOS 6.4 server (x86_64)
img-k3399 brightbox official 2013-05-10 public 5125 Fedora 17 server (i686)
img-zhroq brightbox official 2013-05-10 public 5125 Fedora 17 server (x86_64)
img-1okdf brightbox official 2010-11-19 public 20480 FreeBSD 8.1 minimal (i686)
img-aoubd brightbox official 2010-11-19 public 20480 FreeBSD 8.1 minimal (x86_64)
img-zwg4b brightbox official 2013-05-10 public 5222 Scientific Linux 5.9 server (x86_64)
img-vgetc brightbox official 2013-05-10 public 5120 Scientific Linux 6.4 server (i686)
img-n4f5o brightbox official 2013-05-10 public 5120 Scientific Linux 6.4 server (x86_64)
img-a1yu3 brightbox official 2013-05-10 public 769 Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 LTS server (i686)
img-gaaeo brightbox official 2013-05-10 public 1025 Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 LTS server (x86_64)
img-hnigl brightbox official 2012-03-14 public 20480 Windows 2008 Server R2 (x86_64)
img-ovv3h brightbox official 2013-05-10 public 2048 ubuntu-precise-12.04-amd64-server (x86_64)
img-sougg brightbox official 2013-05-10 public 2048 ubuntu-precise-12.04-i386-server (i686)
img-x9lfj brightbox official 2013-05-10 public 2048 ubuntu-quantal-12.10-amd64-server (x86_64)
img-t3dyq brightbox official 2013-05-10 public 2048 ubuntu-quantal-12.10-i386-server (i686)
img-g8ia6 brightbox official 2013-05-10 public 2048 ubuntu-raring-13.04-amd64-server (x86_64)
img-u3ttt brightbox official 2013-05-10 public 2048 ubuntu-raring-13.04-i386-server (i686)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------All of the RedHat Enterprise, Fedora and Ubuntu official images have been updated to incorporate the latest security patches and fixes in the base image - saving valuable time at deployment.
The previous images are deprecated, which means they don’t show up in the normal listings (to discourage new use) but if you’ve hardcoded the identifiers in your scripts they’ll still work.
Remember that you’re not limited to the “official” images we provide. You can upload and register an image of your own and run pretty much any operating system you like on Brightbox.
In addition there are test images regularly sync’ed to
the test account (acc-tqs4c). The next version of
Ubuntu is already in there for you to
test and help with its development.
$ brightbox-images list --account=acc-tqs4c --show-all | grep saucy
img-x16ui acc-tqs4c upload 2013-05-10 public 2048 ubuntu-saucy-daily-amd64-server (x86_64)
img-flye0 acc-tqs4c upload 2013-05-10 public 2048 ubuntu-saucy-daily-i386-server (i686)
And you can now build a Debian, Fedora, CentOS or Scientific Linux image from scratch using the Brightbox Bootstaller